alt Hacker NewsThis is the "Pilot testimony of UFO sighting" levels of naive.
What's more likely? Anthropic is doing some deeply unethical marketing in the lead up to their multi-trillion dollar IPO? Or they're inventing a machine god? There's ample evidence of the former because that's their entire business model, but no evidence whatsoever to support the latter claims.
If you want an extreme claim to be taken seriously, provide commensurate evidence.
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> There's ample evidence of the former because that's their entire business model
Given the economic numbers is it not reasonable to suppose that the latter also underpins their business model?
I wouldn't rule out pilot testimony of UFO sightings, nor the possibility we're indeed developing a machine God.
There's ample evidence to support both by now.
So what is your credence that they will build a machine god in the next twenty years?
The proof is that LLMs could barely solve arithmetic 3 years ago, but now surpass the best human mathematicians, and that this has all occurred from simple principles (RL + compute) that will continue to scale up by factors of millions in the coming years.
Also, advocating for slowing LLM progress does not benefit Anthropic or OpenAI.